[PD] vista & win7 support ?

[rene beekman]

tested this tonight on one machine running win7.
replacing the pd.dll in the pd/bin folder made pd unable to start....



On May 08, 2010, at 16:38, patko wrote:

> I've recently compiled a version of pd-extended
> just replacing pd.dll fixes it, it's attached
> 
> ----- "rene beekman" <r at raakvlak.net> a écrit :
> 
>> i reported this problem several months ago.
>> the suggestion back then was to test nightly builds, which did not
>> work at the time.
>> more recent nightly builds did not solve this problem either.
>> 
>> it appears on some laptops running vista or windows7, but not all.
>> i have so far not been able to recreate this problem on a machine that
>> did not have the problem.
>> 
>> has anyone else seen this problem? been able to solve it?
>> 
>> i have several pd courses coming up for which i'm expecting the
>> majority of participants to be running windoze - they will be brining
>> in their own machines. 
>> problem is, once into the courses i will not have the time to
>> troubleshoot this kind of problem and i dread going into this knowing
>> that any machine running vista or windows7 is potentially unstable...
>> 
>> would greatly appreciate help in figuring this out
>> 
>> rene
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Feb 14, 2010, at 19:23, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> 1) try a Pd-extended 0.42.5 nightly build
>>> 
>>> 2) try this version with the [multiselect] object removed from the
>> "related objects" subpatch
>>> 
>>> <select-help.pd>
>>> 
>>> 
>>> .hc
>>> 
>>> On Feb 14, 2010, at 7:59 AM, rene beekman wrote:
>>> 
>>>> we're having problems running pd-extended 0.41.4 on vista &
>> windows7
>>>> problems seem to be related to several particular objects or
>> patches
>>>> one example is the select-help patch. opening the help patch either
>> via the desktop, or from within pd via the browser or via the context
>> menu's 'help' option results in windows closing pd
>>>> 
>>>> the application error log on one particular machine shows this:
>>>> 
>>>> Faulting application pd.exe, version 0.0.0.0, time stamp
>> 0x4a277929, faulting module ntdll.dll, version 6.0.6002.18005, time
>> stamp 0x49e03821, exception code 0xc0000005, fault offset 0x00041f3c,
>> process id 0x1534, application start time 0x01caad6a4a506d60.
>>>> 
>>>> on the windows7 machine, it is the same library that is marked as
>> "faulting module", only it's a 6.1 version
>>>> 
>>>> is this a known bug?
>>>> any workarounds?
>>>> 
>>>> thanks in advance
>>>> 
>>>> rene
>>>> 
>>>> 
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> <pd.dll-win32-6.0.zip>